Rand Paul’s wife calls Conway 'desperate'

The wife of GOP Senate nominee Rand Paul on Wednesday said Democrat Jack Conway is "desperate" and needs to "look in the mirror" after running an ad questioning Paul's Christianity.

The controversial spot – which so infuriated Paul he refused to shake Conway's hand at their last debate – focuses an incident in which Paul allegedly tied a woman and asked her to pray to an "Aqua Buddha" when he was a student at Baylor University.

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"Jack Conway has a family too, and while I'm sure he isn't thinking about it right now, these personal attacks hurt people's families,” Kelley Paul said at a press conference in Bowling Green, Ky. “I'd have thought someone with a beautiful baby daughter would take that into account, no matter how desperate he may be to win.

"Rand would never try to smear an opponent with baseless, anonymous gossip from their teenage years,” she added. “At the end of the day, we all have to look ourselves in the mirror. I'm proud to say that my husband will have no trouble doing that when this race is over."

The tea party-backed candidate still has not decided whether he will debate Conway again at a scheduled event next Monday, but said on the Laura Ingraham Show his campaign would make a decision by Friday.

“On the one hand, I think it’s demeaning to me to appear with this guy,” Paul said. “On the other hand, I have appeared on the person’s program, the announcer, and I know him to be a fair individual and I think the voters deserve to hear about the issues.”

Readers' Comments (3)

Rand Paul espouses term limits while supporting his father's 11th term for congress. He decries farm subsidies while members of his family have been receiving them for years. He is a walking contradiction who is now afraid to speak because he always steps in it. Now he needs his wife to fight his battles. I'm sure he is as limp as he looks.

The woman, who again asked for anonymity because she's a clinical psychologist who works with former members of the military, including Tea Partyers, said she was surprised that Paul is still refusing to acknowlege his past views and the college antics they spawned.

"My whole point in sharing [the episode] was that Randy used to be a different person with different views that have radically changed, and he's not acknowledging that," she told me. "That is why I shared it in the first place."

We Kentuckians have enough embarrassments in Washington. After all Mitch is there. We aren't going to further embarrass our state and send this lunatic with his off the wall ideas like